\u201dWell, if Prince [Albert] said it, then it\u2019s a high chance,\u201d Pogacar said, with a playful smile on his face.<\/p>\n
Should it come to fruition, Pogacar would have the chance to follow in Jonas Vingegaard<\/a>\u2019s footsteps this year and complete the clean sweep of Grand Tour victories.<\/p>\n Pogacar is a four-time Tour winner and also triumphed in his only Giro d\u2019Italia appearance to date in 2024.<\/p>\n With a 3\u201936\u201d lead over Visma-Lease a Bike\u2019s Vingegaard at the top of the GC, the 27-year-old is the overwhelming favourite to claim a fifth Tour crown, drawing him level with Jacques Anquetil, Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain for the most yellow jerseys.<\/p>\n Highlights: Schmid outsprints Tejada to take Stage 13 as Pidcock makes huge GC gains<\/p>\n Video credit: TNT Sports<\/p>\n Pogacar finished well down on the leaders on Stage 13 in the peloton on what he described as a \u201dcrazy day.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201dIt [the pace] was incredible,\u201d Pogacar added. \u201dIt wasn\u2019t just the first 100km, it was the [full] 205km.<\/p>\n \u201dA really tough day but we managed it pretty well and I\u2019m happy.\u201d<\/p>\n Stage 13 was a largely flat route but there were a series of hills during the second half of the day. It was completed at an average of around 50km\/h by the lead group.<\/p>\n It was won by Jayco AlUla’s Mauro Schmid in a two-up sprint against XDS Astana’s Harold Tejada, but Tom Pidcock was the biggest mover in the GC. The Briton came home third to vault himself into contention for a podium finish.<\/p>\n At one point, Pidcock (Pinarello-Q36.5) was ahead of second-placed Vingegaard in the virtual GC standings, but after everyone had crossed the line, he had moved up from 11th to fourth, hot on the heels of Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Remco Evenepoel ahead of him.<\/p>\n On Saturday at the Tour, it\u2019s back into the mountains and asked if he prefers the look of that profile, Pogacar continued: \u201dMore than today, yes. We go climb by climb tomorrow and I hope we have good legs.\u201d<\/p>\n Add TNT Sports as a preferred source here<\/a> to enjoy more content like this.Watch and stream the cycling season, including the Tour de France, live on TNT Sports and HBO Max.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pogacar teases possibility of first Vuelta appearance since 2019 Video credit: TNT Sports With the race set to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,135345,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-698205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-france-2026","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"picture\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image-b0813eca-ca5c-412a-b784-0e7edccc6d80-85-2560-1440.jpeg\")
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